God creates men, but they choose each other.
A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.
For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.
A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.
Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.